Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sybil had composed a poem about dead flowers , each quatrain ending with the line ‘ And the spent petals fall , one by one , to the ground ’ , which she read aloud to a receptive audience , a note of melancholy in her voice and a trace of moisture dimming her eyes . |
| 2 | The King 's surprise changed slowly to an amused smile , then suddenly he began to laugh loudly . |
| 3 | It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme . |
| 4 | WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield . |
| 5 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 6 | The United Provinces , still a great naval power at the end of the seventeenth century , sank rapidly to a second-rate position in the early years of this period . |
| 7 | Her mumbles rose instantly to a terrifying scream as the flames jumped from the fire , ran along the hearth , and caught her robe . |
| 8 | When approximately equal tension has been achieved , with no load on the fence , the three wires can be marked at the correct length and fastened securely to a similar chain link which will eventually receive the hook of the straining tackle . |
| 9 | Apple trees grew on either side of the double-sided small house , and behind it the land rose smoothly to a small wood that followed the ridge of a hill . |
| 10 | I groped for Toby in the dark and found his hands , and they held on to me , and I shouted again to an unknown listener as I had wanted to in the street : " I do n't want this ! |
| 11 | Mike McFarlane ran in the first semi-final , got away to a brilliant start and was never headed , recording 10.22 seconds . |
| 12 | In the 100 metres Allan got away to a fine start , I came through fast at the end , there was a photo-finish between us and he got the verdict . |
| 13 | Fresden Manor near Swindon — sold tonight to an un-named bidder . |
| 14 | In the late eighteenth century this symbiosis of peers and paupers is revealed in the fashionable aping of lower-class mores and dress , a version of the return to nature that came naturally to an upper class lacking a culture of its own . |
| 15 | David Swan woke painfully to a brilliant dawn and the distant sound of vacuum cleaners . |
| 16 | Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James . |
| 17 | We drove straight to a panelled restaurant in the dining district between Fifth and Sixth for an exploratory meeting with Christopher Meadowbrook . |
| 18 | Helen reached in and stirred with distaste ; a brown knitted pixie hat surfaced that her mother used to wear long ago , unravelled now to a skeletal condition . |
| 19 | The work involved in compiling the Register — in particular tracking down current addresses — led directly to a Grand Reunion of past pupils and staff , which took place on Saturday 26th June . |
| 20 | Thinking that was a dig at female priorities , she smiled but said nothing as they chugged slowly to a small jetty . |
| 21 | The detonation faded away to a muted roar . |
| 22 | BRITAIN 'S first hospital burger takeaway opened yesterday to a cool welcome from the hospital 's own catering and nutrition experts . |
| 23 | She nodded sympathetically to a passing workman , ‘ I see the launderette was closed . ’ |
| 24 | A copy of his plan was sent to Spain on the very day , 14 April 1762 , that he replied encouragingly to a British approach about opening negotiations to end the war . |
| 25 | From the meadow a faint trail climbed abruptly to a small lochan and then contoured along the hillside , still high above the river . |
| 26 | Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head . |
| 27 | She stepped inside to a chequered marble floor , swept clean and neat , with flowers on the table . |
| 28 | The intensification in rural unrest before 1905 owed less to an overall fall in living standards than to the rising expectations and assertiveness of the peasantry . |
| 29 | She never ceased to regret that her own family had been scattered while she was still so young , and when , in 1787 , the five Wordsworth children were briefly reunited , they returned constantly to a single theme . |
| 30 | They were helpless little flies stuck fast to a sticky trap from which there was no escape . |